| I discussed this concept with one of my favorite teams at a recent team training.
If you’re reactive and ego-driven, you limit your access to new information and reject any input that threatens your image. Think, rubber.
Or are you constantly learning new things but filtering it all with your ego? Are you only consuming things that support what you already think? Are you actively seeking feedback from your colleagues and leaders, but if it’s negative, you completely ignore it and think, “They don’t know what they’re talking about. They don’t see it from my viewpoint.” Nothing sticks. Think Teflon.
Being reactive and growth-minded is probably better. You’re open to new information but do not actively seek it out. You will only change and develop if someone shows up with the information. Grant says somebody might praise you as “coachable, or even teachable…but the problem is that they don’t seek information beyond what’s easily available. They don’t make much progress until someone picks them up and shapes them.” Think, clay.
I see this happen often in our industry. The doctor organizes morning huddles, weekly team meetings, and quarterly team training, and many team members show up ready to learn. Still, they need to seek new information outside of that setting actively.
The sea sponge is our guide. Proactive in its absorption and growth-minded in its filtering, what could happen in your life this week, this quarter, this year if you started acting more like a sea sponge?
Still trying to figure it out? Listen to these 46 seconds… |
